diff --git a/.drone.jsonnet b/.drone.jsonnet
index 140c5f0..c94f679 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 86e81db..147429d 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: 4f8dde7e823ea957355a10b2251c5cb5ad35c05a026fa11c8e236b4ff3d0c8d4
+hmac: 91b43d26ede8f8a761f7c136fb6d35cbc784784c1ce443b82674e92458ffded1
 
 ...
diff --git a/.linkcheckignore b/.linkcheckignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000