>Option 1: In addition to the option "Expand message nodes on retrieval", have an additional option to automatically expand forums and categories on message retrieval.
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>Option 2: Reduce the minimum for the dynamic treeview, to perhaps 50 or 100.

You could still add an entry in the Task Tracker but it's not likely to happen in a short term because of the low request to obtain it. For example, many, before they knew they could increase to 1000 were saying it was too low. But, we never received a request, other than yours, to lower the minimum. Maybe that'd change now that you've brought it in.

As for option 1, we believe the current structure is good. The problem by adding too many features, even if a user is non defaulting that value, later on, he'll send us request for support because he would be annoying by that not remembering that he changed the default earlier on. So, even if such option could be customizable, we always take in consideration a multitude of other factors.