Indeed, getting rid of he ?3 part of the file name works but that should not be necessary if one gets the right url in the first place.
When I do use imgur, I go to my images. I open the folder I want for the photos I need. Then I click on the photos I want. it opens in a pop up and on the right it lists several different URLs titles
Image Link
https://imgur.com/aoEFMWKDirect Link
https://i.imgur.com/aoEFMWK.jpgMarkdown Link (reddit comments)
[Imgur](
https://i.imgur.com/aoEFMWK.jpg)
HTML (website / blogs)
<a href="https://imgur.com/aoEFMWK"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/aoEFMWK.jpg" title="source: imgur.com" /></a>
BBCode (message boards & forums)
Linked BBCode (message boards)
[url=https://imgur.com/aoEFMWK]
Behind each link, there is a "Copy" button. I click on the one that is behind the Direct Link URL.
I then paste this url into the dialog box of the message I'm creating.
not that the link behind the BBCode was encased in [img] [/img] so it displays the image in this message instead of the link itself. It is the same url as the one in the Direct Link .