diff --git a/.drone.jsonnet b/.drone.jsonnet
index 6ebbacf..202c36f 100644
--- a/.drone.jsonnet
+++ b/.drone.jsonnet
@@ -350,10 +350,11 @@ local PipelineDocs = {
       name: 'link-validation',
       image: 'thegeeklab/link-validator',
       commands: [
-        'link-validator --nice --external --skip-file .linkcheckignore',
+        'link-validator --color=always --rate-limit 10',
       ],
       environment: {
         LINK_VALIDATOR_BASE_DIR: 'docs/public',
+        LINK_VALIDATOR_RETRIES: '3',
       },
     },
     {
diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index f40e422..82041e6 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -519,9 +519,10 @@ steps:
   - name: link-validation
     image: thegeeklab/link-validator
     commands:
-      - link-validator --nice --external --skip-file .linkcheckignore
+      - link-validator --color=always --rate-limit 10
     environment:
       LINK_VALIDATOR_BASE_DIR: docs/public
+      LINK_VALIDATOR_RETRIES: 3
 
   - name: build
     image: thegeeklab/hugo:0.97.3
@@ -661,6 +662,6 @@ depends_on:
 
 ---
 kind: signature
-hmac: d757b839a090092d430dfeba0e2a5a2fcab4deb2aab992006d8f475cf24b2815
+hmac: 84a623c774525e956668dc8f054937ed3afcd4dc4f7af2d6ab6efc54c214fa3d
 
 ...
diff --git a/.linkcheckignore b/.linkcheckignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000