diff --git a/app/views/articles/_sidebar.html.erb b/app/views/articles/_sidebar.html.erb
index 88c9b13da..87ea929e8 100644
--- a/app/views/articles/_sidebar.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/articles/_sidebar.html.erb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <div id="sidebar-wrapper-left" class="sidebar-wrapper sidebar-wrapper-left crayons-layout__sidebar-left">
   <div class="sidebar-bg" id="sidebar-bg-left"></div>
   <aside class="side-bar" aria-label="Primary sidebar">
-    <% cache(release_adjusted_cache_key("main-sidebar-nav--#{user_signed_in?}"), expires_in: 15.minutes) do %>
+    <% cache(release_adjusted_cache_key("main-sidebar-nav--#{user_signed_in?}--#{current_user&.following_tags_count&.positive?}"), expires_in: 15.minutes) do %>
       <%= render "articles/sidebar_nav" %>
       <% @sponsorships = Sponsorship.gold.live.includes(:organization).order(featured_number: :asc) %>
       <%# the pattern .present?/.each has the advantage of issuing only a single SQL query to load objects in memory %>
diff --git a/app/views/articles/index.html.erb b/app/views/articles/index.html.erb
index 674782410..b7aa53906 100644
--- a/app/views/articles/index.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/articles/index.html.erb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 <%= javascript_packs_with_chunks_tag "homePage", defer: true %>
 
-<% cache(release_adjusted_cache_key("main-stories-index-#{params}-#{user_signed_in?}"), expires_in: 90.seconds) do %>
+<% cache(release_adjusted_cache_key("main-stories-index-#{params}-#{user_signed_in?}-#{current_user&.following_tags_count&.positive?}"), expires_in: 90.seconds) do %>
   <div class="crayons-layout crayons-layout--3-cols crayons-layout--3-cols--drop-right-left" id="index-container"
       data-params="<%= params.merge(sort_by: "hotness_score", sort_direction: "desc").to_json(only: %i[tag username q sort_by sort_direction]) %>" data-which="<%= @list_of %>"
       data-tag=""