diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index a6da1c9..452c4df 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 --rate-limit 10 -e https://matrix.to/.* -e https://www.graylog.org/.*
     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: 72779ce1443c7a4bf5b508bd69a8a87c17008341d30261602d0d0080ba1f6bdc
 
 ...
diff --git a/.linkcheckignore b/.linkcheckignore
deleted file mode 100644
index da30e68..0000000
--- a/.linkcheckignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-https://matrix.to/.*