diff --git a/redis/url.go b/redis/client.go
rename from redis/url.go
rename to redis/client.go
index e9f719863d3c0102811829d6d8f5e1290f7fbb81..71abd98a2a39b274171d42e7f265a3d6f14dea90 100644
--- a/redis/url.go
+++ b/redis/client.go
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ 	}
 	return &uopts, nil
 }
 
-func ParseURL(raw string) (*redis.UniversalOptions, error) {
+func NewUniversalClient(raw string) (redis.UniversalClient, error) {
 	// Support multiple URLs for sentinel connections
 	var schemes []string
 	var urls []*url.URL
@@ -90,15 +90,16 @@ 			opts, err := redis.ParseURL(raw)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
-			return &redis.UniversalOptions{
-				Addrs: []string{opts.Addr},
-				// TODO
-			}, nil
+			return redis.NewClient(opts), nil
 		}
 		if urls[0].Scheme != "redis+sentinel" && urls[0].Scheme != "rediss+sentinel" {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid connection URL scheme: %s", urls[0].Scheme)
 		}
 		// a single sentinel URL, fall through to parsing that
 	}
-	return parseSentinelURLs(urls)
+	opts, err := parseSentinelURLs(urls)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return redis.NewUniversalClient(opts), nil
 }
diff --git a/server/server.go b/server/server.go
index 8a8b749069cef78eb028fe66730d53ccfd8c8b47..a1eb1866e320599ff6ce0da2546d2810d2afbb92 100644
--- a/server/server.go
+++ b/server/server.go
@@ -178,11 +178,10 @@ 	rcs, ok := server.conf.Get("sr.ht", "redis-host")
 	if !ok {
 		rcs = "redis://"
 	}
-	ropts, err := redis.ParseURL(rcs)
+	rc, err := redis.NewUniversalClient(rcs)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Invalid sr.ht::redis-host in config.ini: %v", err)
 	}
-	rc := goRedis.NewUniversalClient(ropts)
 	server.redis = rc
 
 	apiconf := fmt.Sprintf("%s::api", server.service)