diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 018ef5397..0066c3f82 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ extlinks = {
 
 linkcheck_ignore = [
     r'https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/',
-    r'https://github.com/\w+$',  # ignore user pages
+    r'https://github.com/[^/]+$',  # ignore user pages
     r'.*localhost.*',
     r'https://www.musixmatch.com/',  # blocks requests
 ]