diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index a6da1c9..e079bf0 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ steps:
   - name: link-validation
     image: thegeeklab/link-validator
     commands:
-      - link-validator --nice --external --skip-file .linkcheckignore
+      - link-validator --color=always -e https://matrix.to/.*
     environment:
       LINK_VALIDATOR_BASE_DIR: public/
+      LINK_VALIDATOR_RETRIES: 3
 
   - name: build
     image: thegeeklab/hugo:0.104.3
@@ -126,6 +127,6 @@ depends_on:
 
 ---
 kind: signature
-hmac: 328edde5574b8be5eb12babc281f3777b2625118184c8306d2022196be9561f1
+hmac: 2582671eb8c9e7f775dab76f1e6987efe38ba7e84f756a1acb39feafd4a1057f
 
 ...
diff --git a/.linkcheckignore b/.linkcheckignore
deleted file mode 100644
index da30e68..0000000
--- a/.linkcheckignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-https://matrix.to/.*